Transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have announced the creation of the new Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for creative excellence alongside the transmediale Award 2011 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011. The transmediale Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that are on the web and about the web, use open and free technology and incite participation and/or collaboration. They can be critical, celebratory or both.

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The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. In this framework, on October Kaleidoscienza organizes a one-day-event to promote thoughts and ideas on topics concerning the role of biodiversity in our lives.Kaleidoscienza, in collaboration with Graphicplayers, announce an open call for the international exhibition: ‘2010 Bio-Graphics’. The call ‘2010 Bio-Graphics’ is open to graphic designers, professional or not, of any age and nationality. Participants are invited to submit their work dealing with the call topic in the form of a poster.

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